News Archive / Tagged: Space Launch Complex 6

• Gallery: NROL-71 mission finally gets underway

  Derek RichardsonJanuary 20th, 2019

  After several scrubbed attempts, United Launch Alliance was finally able to launch its Delta IV Heavy rocket with the secretive NROL-71 payload.

• NROL-71 kicks off ULA’s 2019 launch manifest

  Patrick AttwellJanuary 19th, 2019

  LOMPOC, Calif. — United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully completed its first flight of 2019. Today's launch utilized the largest rocket in the Colorado-based company's arsenal to send a classified payload into space. In doing so the company finally managed to move past a saga of delays.

• NROL-71 launch date now under review

  Jason RhianJanuary 5th, 2019

  LOMPOC, Calif. -- After numerous delays it now appears that the flight of a Delta IV Heavy rocket will be pushed back even further.

• ‘Hold hold hold’: NROL-71 mission scrubbed

  Derek RichardsonDecember 9th, 2018

  LOMPOC, Calif. — Just seconds before the planned liftoff of a Delta IV Heavy rocket with the NROL-71 payload, an automatic abort of the launch sequence was triggered.

• Classified: A review of US defense missions launched in 2018

  Patrick AttwellDecember 5th, 2018

  LOMPOC, Calif. -- 2018 has seen five payloads launched for the Department of Defense. Two of these missions were classified and one failed. With the upcoming flight of a ULA Delta Heavy with the NROL-71, SpaceFlight Insider takes a look back at the DoD's 2018 launch manifest.